The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival
Celebration! | March 23-26
The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival, the longest-running annual solo festival for women in L.A., returns to live performance! This year marks 30 years of producing close to 700 extraordinary multicultural and multidisciplinary solo performers from around the globe. This year's theme is: CELEBRATION! Empowering Voices of Solo Female Performers for 30 Years. More>>
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Jazz at Naz Continues
March 26
The Soraya’s month-long Jazz at Naz celebration continues with the 2023 GRAMMY Award-winning Best New Artist Samara Joy with the Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra. With her Verve Records debut Linger Awhile, 23-year-old Bronx native Samara Joy joins the likes of Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday as the venerable label’s next jazz singing sensation. Her rich, velvety, and precociously refined voice has earned fans such as Anita Baker and Regina King, along with millions of likes on TikTok, have cemented her status as the first Gen-Z jazz singing star. The concert is sold-out but available via The Soraya’s Live Stream at www.thesoraya.org. More>>
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Turn of the Screw
But it’s really all about the performances here. And they are absolutely electric. I loved it. One act. Fasted paced. Purposeful, but not forced. The governess is played with authenticity, understanding, and a gentle earnestness. Every one of the other characters is how she remembers them, so they can be ethereal. But Mr Mullen plays them all with absolute truth and it works perfectly.
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Run for Your Wife
A London cab driver, John Smith, is leading two lives, complete with two different wives; Mary and Barbara. He manages to juggle them both without arousing suspicion until he gets mugged and wakes up in the hospital with the wrong wife by his side. He is forced to explain things to his two wives and hilarity ensues.
Director Sherman Wayne says to get ready for “virtually continuous laughter.”
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Scintilla
Michael and Nora travel to visit his mother Marianne, a reclusive artist who lives at the edge of the woods in California’s Wine Country. As a raging wildfire approaches, Michael must deal with Marianne’s stubborn refusal to leave, and the arrival of two unexpected visitors. The rising tension exposes a complicated family history erupting into a larger question about our very survival on this planet.
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Bernie Shine!
Long-time show business veteran magician Bernie Shine – “The Man Who Knows” – will thrill you with his up-close magic and tickle your funny bone with entertaining stories and anecdotes at El Portal Theatre’s Monroe Forum. Bernie Shine will amaze you with mentalism and telepathy, plus he pulls off precision slight-of-hand projected on the movie screen behind him for all to see.
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Love Letters
Sometimes it takes a lifetime to spell out love. Meet Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, two childhood friends who share a lifetime of correspondence, beginning with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards and ending in one last heartfelt goodbye. Join April Stewart and Courtney R. Hall for this funny and poignant portrait of love and friendship. Called an “exquisite jewel of a play” by Time magazine.
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Halpern & Johnson
A Group Rep fundraiser staged reading with violin of Lionel Goldstein’s HALPERN & JOHNSON, on Saturday, March 25. This revealing and surprising tale explores the funny, rocky and unusual relationship of two very different gentlemen — one is Jewish and the other Gentile — who meet under difficult circumstances and discover that they have much more in common than they ever could have imagined.
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A Little Bit Off
Tony Award winner Faith Prince and LA Drama Critics Circle Award winner Jason Graae have dazzled Broadway and cabaret audiences for decades! Between the two of them, they have amassed:
- 17 Broadway shows
- 6 National tours
- 16,485 Off-Broadway shows
- 1,250 staged readings
This dynamic duo promises to shake your blahs away! With the scintillating Gerald Sternbach on piano!
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Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along begins in the present and moves backwards, tracing the lives of wealthy, jaded composer, Franklin Shepard, and his two estranged friends through each milestone of their personal and professional lives (good and bad). The show ends with a touch of rueful irony, as the three best friends at the start of their careers face a bright future: young, talented and enthusiastic about the worlds waiting to be conquered.
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Lawless Brewing Company
"Lawless Brewing Company runs on the independent spirit of Los Angeles. By combining our deep knowledge of traditional brewing practices with a passion for the wild and unconventional, we’re forging our own path in the LA craft beer scene." More>>
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Meet My Mentor: Every Solo Artist Needs a Guide
"So much of what I have achieved in the field of solo theatre has been because of the mentorship I received from this superb woman and that is why I want to utilize today’s blog to introduce you to this phenomenal woman through this interview I did with her." Meet Adilah Barnes from the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival.
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Volunteer Ushers
Theatre 68 Arts Complex is looking for Volunteer Ushers for their performances. This is a super fun way to be involved in small theatre in the #NoHoArtsDistrict! Ushers greet patrons, direct them to the correct box office/theatre, and assist Front of House Staff in ensuring patrons have a great experience!
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Vieness Piano Duo in NoHo!
April 2
The Athena Foundation for the Arts 2023 Spring Concert Series
What’s better than a performance by an award-winning renowned concert pianist? That would be a performance by two award-winning renowned concert pianists! Eva Schaumkell and hubby Vijay Venkatesh are each polished maestros in their own right. Put them together and you have yourself a wondrous afternoon of musical delights. Their prowess brings to life piano masterworks by Bach, Brahms, Schubert, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Saint-Saëns. Curated imagery and lighting create an immersive experience. More>>
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Enjoy the NoHo Arts District More!
The NoHo Card is a FREE discount card app for restaurants, bars, theatres, classes, shopping and services at businesses in and around the NoHo Arts District. More>>
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